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2004 Death - Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91

1997 Event - U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia

1995 Event - Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits

1994 Event - Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down

1994 Event - 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan

1992 Event - 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold

1990 Event - New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917

1983 Event - Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

1977 Event - ELO releases "Telephone Line"

1968 Event - 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike

1963 Event - Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone

1963 Event - Touch-tone telephone introduced

1962 Event - Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated

1960 Event - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed

1956 Event - 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)

1956 Event - Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used

1956 Event - 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)

1951 Event - 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance

1950 Event - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories

1949 Event - Chinatown telephone exchange closed

1947 Event - "Medium and The Telephone" closes at Barrymore New York City after 211 performances

1947 Event - 1st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane

1947 Event - "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances

1947 Event - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in New York City

1946 Event - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation

1946 Event - SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis

1942 Event - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers

1941 Event - Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol

1933 Event - 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)

1930 Event - Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service

1929 Event - 1st telephone installed in White House

1929 Event - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies

1929 Event - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies

1928 Event - 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US

1927 Event - Telephone service begins between U.S. and Mexico

1927 Event - Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London

1926 Event - 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York

1922 Event - 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

1922 Death - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies

1921 Event - President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show

1917 Event - Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants

1915 Event - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent

1915 Event - Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1915 Event - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF)

1904 Event - Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms

1903 Birthday - Donald Voorhees, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, conductor, Bell Telephone Hour

1898 Event - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake

1896 Event - Dial telephone patented

1891 Event - London-Paris telephone connection opens

1891 Event - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone

1889 Event - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone

1885 Event - American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates

1884 Event - 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston - New York

1883 Event - 1st telephone call between New York and Chicago

1881 Event - 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St. Stephen, NB

1881 Event - Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange

1880 Event - 1st pay telephone installed

1879 Event - 1st automatic telephone switching system patented

1878 Event - 1st White House telephone installed

1878 Event - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)

1878 Event - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1878 Event - 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)

1878 Event - 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones

1878 Event - 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)

1878 Event - George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator

1877 Event - 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1877 Event - Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm

1877 Event - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts

1877 Event - 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass

1876 Event - 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires

1876 Event - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1876 Event - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone

1876 Event - A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

1854 Birthday - Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone

1847 Birthday - Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone

1835 Birthday - Elisha Grey, inventor, Telephone













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